Subject: From: header

From: libove*@*compgen.com (Jay Vassos-Libove)
Date: 14 Jan 1997 19:19:58 GMT

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You can recompile PINE with the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM definition NOT
commented out.  This allows From: to be displayed in the customized
composition headers list.

However, while this will be adequate for most recipients for the purposes
of Reid (the poster of the original question), it leaves behind the
Sender: or X-Sender: lines with your real user ID.

As you can see from my .signature file below, I insert "*"'s to head
off (further) scanning of my e-mail addresses from my postings, in a
(vain?) attempt to reduce the amount of spam that keeps filling up
my e-mail box.

My problem is that I don't want me real unadulterated e-mail address
to appear ANYWHERE in my e-mail/postings.

Postings are easy - my news program lets me make those changes.  E-mail
is not so easy -- PINE doesn't want to.

Can someone provide instructions for hacking PINE to permit changing
_all_ of the source address information, From: and Sender:/X-Sender:
towards this end?

(Please, no comments on making it easier for spammers to compose mail
with falsified headers -- that is so trivial to do without using any
mail client program at all that PINE's restriction is little more than
a quaint relic at this point, and truly reduces PINE's value in today's
Internet, *sigh*).

-- 
Jay Vassos-Libove
Senior Software Engineer                     +1 (770) 552-0543 (home)
Computer Generation, Inc.                    +1 (404) 705-2867 (work)
libove*@*compgen.com postmaster*@*compgen.com webmaster*@*compgen.com
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